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Seeing as our all-female choir Women sing East will be exploring local protest songs with Bishopsgate Institute’s Tubthumping Chorus, we thought it would be a good idea to give you a brief history of the silk-spinning industry in Spitalfields and the songs that the weavers sung. Silk has been produced in Spitalfields since the 15th…

In our final stop on the tour of last Winter’s In the House project, which saw student composers and performers from the Royal Academy of Music collaborate on brand-new site specific works, we reach 10 Folgate Street. The building has had a colourful history of inhabitants and the compact upstairs sitting room, along with the unusual nature of the In…

One of the things that Spitalfields Music has been really fortunate to have over the years is the continued support of a large number of our neighbours. Of course, this is inherent in the story of how the festival began, but it has also been shown in many different ways through the festivals, perhaps no…

In this Staff Pick post, Ellie Folkes, our Festivals Programme Manager shares with us how she unwinds after work. My favourite place to head to for a good night out after work is just around the corner to Folgate Street.(Undiscovered Spitalfields at Dennis Sever’s House, Summer Festival 2011) In a couple of weeks I will…